It's funny, particularly when you're a writer and you're doing well, you have that sense of like, "Oh! My view of the world is the one that's going to be published."

The end of 'The End' is the best place to begin 'The End', because if you read 'The End' from the beginning of the beginning of 'The End' to the end of the end of 'The End', you will arrive at the end.

Lately it has become more and more difficult to attend dinner parties without the evening ending in gunfire or tapioca.

If I were to say, "Yes, I am a fascinating, erudite person," what would that say about me? I don't know.

I can't imagine why you would want to take your child to see what the career of a writer is like, because it mostly consists of sitting in a room typing, or going to the library and looking something up. Those are not exciting things to watch.

I think if I were walking someplace and I saw a corpse my brain would tell me it was a million things before I believed it was a corpse.

People worry more about girls, for a good reason: I don't think my parents thought I was going to be raped by a classmate or attacked when I was walking alone in some neighborhood. So it's not just paranoid parents.